The following interview is part of a cutting-edge series of video interviews called Parenting Today: Raising Strong, Resilient Kids being aired exclusively on Mad in America.
This series has as its aim educating parents about the current mental disorder paradigm as it relates to children. It also offers many useful tips about how to raise more resilient children and how to become a more skillful parent. In this series of more than thirty interviews, we share information about the diverse resources available to parents, including alternative ones.
We hope that you’ll follow this important series. Mental health advocate Heather Juergensen hosts the interviews, each of which introduces you to an interesting guest speaking on a subject of importance to parents. We hope that you enjoy this series, benefit from it, and decide to alert other parents to its existence!
Today’s guest is Peter Breggin, MD. Dr. Breggin is a psychiatrist and expert in clinical psychopharmacology. A former teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School and full-time consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health, he has written dozens of scientific articles and more than twenty books, including Toxic Psychiatry, Talking Back to Prozac, Talking Back to Ritalin and The Ritalin Fact Book.
He’s known as the “conscience of psychiatry” and is one of the world’s foremost experts on psychiatric drugs. He has served as a medical expert in many criminal and civil cases involving these drugs, including product-liability suits against drug manufacturers. Dr. Breggin employs what he calls Empathic Therapy, and he has spoken widely about the importance of love and empathy in the therapeutic process. He maintains a thriving private practice of psychiatry in Ithaca, New York, where he treats adults, children and families.
Links of Interest
Dr. Breggin’s website.
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